Quote #206
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
More from Bertrand Russell
- The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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- To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
- I am neither as drunk as a Lord, nor as sober as a Judge. I am more in the condition of a Lord Justice.